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Re: One-Word Domains

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They claim there's still an English word (an adjective) that's available as a .com domain but apparently it's not possible to see what it is from their site.

I remember back in ’99 seeing a list of English words that were still available as .com It was short enough to read at a sitting and I was going through it looking for potential band names. The only one I remember was “osteoclasts.” Unfortunately, we didn’t have a hard enough sound to merit that name.

Re: One-Word Domains

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post #2

They claim there's still an English word (an adjective) that's available as a .com domain but apparently it's not possible to see what it is from their site. I remember back in ’99 seeing a list of English words that were still available as .com It was short enough to read at a sitting and I was going through it looking for potential band names. The only one I remember was “osteoclasts.” Unfortunately, we didn’t have…

> They claim there's still an English word (an adjective) that's available as a .com domain but apparently it's not possible to see what it is from their site.

I think that refers to "extra-small", which is a word in the linked gist: https://gist.github.com/hugsy/8910dc78d208e40de42deb29e62df9...

Re: One-Word Domains

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Hey everyone! Maker of One Word Domains here. I recently launched this on Product Hunt and got some pretty good feedback there and was looking forward to launching it on Hacker News as well but oh well, someone did it for me

To give you guys some backstory, I was dabbling around with Flask the other day and decided to build something that I would’ve loved to use when I was trying to find a good name for my startup - a database of all the available one-word domain names out there. It’s a pretty straightforward idea but somehow I’ve never been able to find a resource like this online so I decided to make one myself.

Also, since this is my first time building a web-app from scratch, I'd appreciate any constructive criticism you guys have for me - don't be afraid to tear me apart with your feedback. As of right now, here are a few features that I am planning to add to the website:

- A synonym feature, where you can click on each domain and it'll show you synonyms to that domain that are available (I was actually planning to post about OWD on Hacker News today but I was met with a few obstacles when trying to build this feature, so I had to postpone the launch)

- A "staff picks" section for each TLD page

- .dev TLD page - gotta give back to the dev community!

Let me know what you guys think about these features. Also, please let me know any suggestions that you might have that could make this better. Thanks a lot!

P.S.: Also, I'm thinking about removing domains that were purchased from the "most popular" and "recently viewed" sections - should I do that or should I leave them there? I'm just worried that by leaving them there it's a little misleading - people might think it's still available.

~ Steven

Re: One-Word Domains

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post #2

They claim there's still an English word (an adjective) that's available as a .com domain but apparently it's not possible to see what it is from their site. I remember back in ’99 seeing a list of English words that were still available as .com It was short enough to read at a sitting and I was going through it looking for potential band names. The only one I remember was “osteoclasts.” Unfortunately, we didn’t have…

Yeah, I've been trying to find legible and pronounceable one-word .com domains but to no avail...the only ones I found were words like injudiciously.com or diarrhoeic.com haha

Would appreciate some suggestions on what to do to improve on this!

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